Curricula

Over the last couple of years, headlines about schools have become more and more prevalent. Whether it was about school lunches (and how bad they are) or how schools are helping their students for the better, stories about schools have been and will always be in the headlines. However, there is one story that has shown up plenty of times and has no definite solution: underfunded public schools. Public schools all over the nation, from Chicago to Philadelphia, have been declining for a while.…

& Why? The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, or more shortly known as CEDAW was adopted on the 18 December 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. (http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/) However, despite some opposition Australia signed the CEDAW at a special signing ceremony at the UN World Conference for the Decade of Women on 17 July 1980. (https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/woman-world-australias-signing-cedaw) Part 1 Article 5…

In addition to educating students and visitors, zoos also educate teachers. Moreover, according to the AZA “Over the past ten years, AZA-accredited institutions have also trained more than 400,000 teachers with award-winning and proven science curricula. Not only are zoos educating visitors, but they are also educating teachers. The teachers now have direct knowledge to better educate their students. Opponents might say that people are not being educated correctly or their not being educated at…

Do you remember childhood life in elementary school? Did you enjoy it? Do you miss that time? If the answer is yes, you should feel pity for the children nowadays. As the specialist say, “the extra month of instruction provides additional learning opportunities which contribute to Brooks ' success”(Tawasha, par. 2). They think more time in school is good for the kids. There’s already 2.5% elementary school in USA being change to year-round school(Tawasha, par. 1). Can you ever imagine no summer…

In order for any corporation of standards to be able to be rigorously interpreted and devote, there must be a satisfactory impartial of implementation guidance. The IASC standards often provide less implementation guidance than U.S. Instead, they condense statements of principles to some public standards outside the United States. Also, the IASC has formatted its standards by using venture some lettering to emphasize basic requirements of the standards while spot explanative theme in normal…

Furthermore, Delbanco’s views on education agrees with other educational writers, such as Jean Anyon’s, stances. Anyon was professor of educational policy in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and wrote about the five elementary schools she observed. Anyon argues that education is not equalized, but is differentiated by social class, as she wrote, “The ‘hidden curriculum’ of schoolwork is tacit preparation for relating to the process of production in a particular way...In the…

Rose D’Alessio: A Teacher Leader at Montevallo High To be a leader, a teacher must think as leaders do. Rather than asking , “What am I going to do?” leaders ask, “What is it I am trying to get others to do, and what reasons might they have for doing those things?” (Schlechty, 2002). This thinking model describes Montevallo High School’s October Teacher-of-the-Month, Rose D’Alessio. French teacher and reading intervention teacher are her “official roles,” yet she exercises considerable…

Admittedly, it is within human nature to group similar people together as a way of organizing and making sense of the vastly diverse world around us. Psychology provides an explanation for this through the term social-categorization: the innate cognitive process in which people make sense of the complex world they live in by allocating similar individuals into social groups. Albeit being a natural human tendency, social grouping, more often than not, turns into stereotyping and discrimination.…

In my country (Iran) students are encouraged to apply, enroll, and, if accepted, complete their schooling, but with a caveat. They will not be given their degree, until they work for a certain amount of time in the field that they studied. So, those who want their degree, should choose the basics so that they can get the job that will earn them the chosen degree they studied for. Far too much emphasis is placed in getting just any degree. A degree in the basics such as a business, medical, or…

Does U.S really have the best education in the world? That is a question I keep wondering from the first day I came here, and now my conclusion is that maybe U.S has the best high level education but not necessarily for the elementary level. The reason why I say this is because I think from first grade to eighth grade, American students learn far less than students in other countries like China, Japan, and vice versa. Based on my personal experience, American students do not learn much about…